CD150: JACK DORSEY
Jack Dorsey is founder of both Twitter, now X, and Square, now Block. We discuss his strong focus on bitcoin and nostr, lessons learned across his many years of experience, censorship on twitter, and
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CD142: BITCOIN AND SATOSHI WITH ADAM BACK
Adam Back is cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, a company focused on building out bitcoin technology. We discuss his recent appearance in HBO documentary 'Money Electric,' the blossoming Swiss bitcoin
CD143: BITCOIN CONSENSUS ANALYSIS WITH STEVE LEE AND LYN ALDEN
Steve runs Spiral, Block's open source bitcoin initiative. Lyn is founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and partner at Ego Death Capital. Steve and Lyn join the show to discuss their recent
CD144: CASHU WITH CALLE
Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the cashu open source protocol, a bitcoin powered chaumian ecash implementation. The cashu ecosystem of wallets and backends provides users the ability to
CD154: DAN GOULD - PAYJOIN
Dan is the maintainer of Payjoin Dev Kit. Payjoins are a type of collaborative bitcoin transaction that can reduce fees and improve privacy. We discuss the potential for broad industry adoption among
CD161: ARBEDOUT - SOMETHING MORE PROFOUND
Arbedout is the creator of Sigbash, a novel new collaborative custody tool, and author of Something More Profound, a book focused on the political economy of network protocols. Highlighting his deep
CD170: JOHN ARNOLD - TEN31 AND BITCOIN MARKET DYNAMICS
John is an integral part of our five person team at Ten31 and we dive deep into how we think about deploying funds throughout the ecosystem. We explore topics such as merchant adoption, bitcoin
CD156: EVAN KALOUDIS - ZEUS AND CASHU
Evan is the founder of Zeus. An open source lightning wallet available for iOS and Android. In addition to their best-in-class self custody tools they recently launched cashu support in their beta
CD155: ROB HAMILTON - MINISCRIPT AND ANCHORWATCH
Rob is the cofounder of AnchorWatch, a company focused on providing secure bitcoin storage and insurance using native bitcoin miniscript functionality. Customers are able to maintain custody of their
CD162: SETH FOR PRIVACY - PAYJOIN, SILENT PAYMENTS, AND CAKE WALLET
Seth is VP of Cake Wallet, a self custody bitcoin wallet available on ios, android, and desktop. We discuss their privacy focused features and how they plan to iterate going forward. We also discuss
CD163: FEMI LONGE - HRF BITCOIN DEV FUND FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Femi Longe is the Global Bitcoin Development Lead at the Human Rights Foundation. The HRF has been supporting bitcoin developers, designers, and educators with grants and assistance for over five
MIT BITCOIN EXPO: SUPPORTING FREEDOM TECH INFRASTRUCTURE KEYNOTE
I had the pleasure of presenting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during their annual Bitcoin Expo on April 6th 2025. Thought you all may find it interesting. Video link below if you want
CD157: NVK - COINKITE AND SELF CUSTODY
NVK is the cofounder of Coinkite, the leading bitcoin only hardware provider in the industry. Coinkite's Coldcards are the easiest way to secure bitcoin and provide users a variety of features
CD158: STEPHEN POLLOCK - BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE AND FREE SAMOURAI
Stephen Pollock is the SVP of Development at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. BPI is the leading bitcoin focused think tank in the United States. We discuss the current regulatory environment, status of
CD159: VNPRC - HASHPOOLS
VNPRC is the lead maintainer of the Hashpool project, which aims to make mining more accessible using the cashu ecash protocol. He also runs Triangle BitDevs, a technical bitcoin meetup based in
CD152: TENNESSEE GOVERNOR BILL LEE
Governor Lee is a seventh generation Tennessean and the 50th Governor of Tennessee. This chat was in front of a live audience at Bitcoin Park during our annual Nashville Energy and Mining Summit in
CD153: LISA NEIGUT - BITCOIN++ DEV EDUCATION AND OPENSATS GRANTS
Lisa is the founder of Base58 and Bitcoin++ bitcoin developer education initiatives and a board member of OpenSats. We discuss her conference series and the current state of bitcoin development.
CD166: JEFF GARDNER AND MAX HILLEBRAND - WHITE NOISE PRIVATE CHAT
White Noise is a secure private messenger that aims to provide similar functionality to Signal in a more open, interoperable, and robust way. The app uses the nostr protocol for identity and data
CD168: MATT AHLBORG - PAYPERQ AI
PayPerQ is a bitcoin enabled ai interface that enables users to easily use all of the top ai tools without an account. Users pay per use with bitcoin and can switch the models they use on the fly
CD172: LIBERTY FARMER - HAM RADIO, NOSTR, AND BITCOIN
Liberty Farmer is a HAM Radio enthusiast and the lead maintainer of the HAMSTR project. His goal is to make it easier to send and receive nostr notes using HAM Radio. Combined with shorter range